Initial E with the Martyrdom of Saint Stephen, ca. 1394–1402,
From a gradual created for the Carthusian monastery of the Holy Spirit at Farneta, near Lucca,
Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna (Italian),
Italian (Bologna),
Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment (2007.236)

Initial P with the Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr, second half of 13th century,
From a Dominican antiphonary,
Italian (Bologna),
Tempera and ink on parchment (23.21.2)

Initial S with the Beheading of Saint Paul, ca. 1278,
From an antiphonary created for the Cathedral of Imola,
Master of Bagnacavallo,
Italian (Imola),
Tempera and ink on parchment (26.159.2)

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist; Study for the Right Arm of the Infant Saint John (upper left); Study for Drapery (upper right), Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Marchigian), Red chalk (64.47)

Magdalena Poenitens (Penitent Magdalene), ca. 155556, Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish), Etching with engraving; first state of two (26.72.14)

The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia, 1612–14,
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (Italian, Bolognese),
Charcoal with white chalk heightening on fourteen sheets of blue laid paper, two of the sheets cut from elsewhere on the original cartoon and reset at the left and right margins to make up the oval (1998.211)

Saint Mark the Evangelist and Saint Sinibaldus Venerated by Members of a Lay Confraternity: Leaf from a Mariegola, ca. 142534, Cristoforo Cortese (Italian), Tempera and gold leaf on parchment (1975.1.2468)

St. Nicholas Accuses the Consul from Scenes from the Life of St. Nicholas, ca. 1200–1210, French, Picardy, from the cathedral of Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais at Soissons, Pot-metal glass, vitreous paint (1980.263.3)

Statuette of Saint Agnes after Gian Lorenzo Bernini (15981680), third quarter of 17th century, Cast after a terracotta sketch-model for one of the statues over the colonnades of Saint Peter's Square, Rome, Bronze, brown natural patina, traces of red-gold lacquer (1978.202)